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iakudi

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Posted: Oct. 18 2005,22:57

I am following the intsruction on this coard on how to install the poor mans frugal_lite.sh.

I got as far as booting off toms rtbt disk and setting up my Xirocm PCMCIA card to grab an IP address.

I am stuck on the next bit where I need to create two 64MB partitions using fdisk......I have never used fdisk....I found a web page that tells mow how to do this http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/partition-5.html

but do I need a primary or extended partition? How do I get hda1 and hda2 installed? Can someone please tell me in simple step by step instructions? My laptop has gone off to get the iso image BUT I know it will fail as I made a boob of my fdisk job...also killing my Debian install (although I dont care abou that)...

motokitn

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Posted: Oct. 19 2005,05:17

I have more experience with cfdisk but I think I can answer some of your questions anyway.
It sounds like you got it pointed to the drive ok. I always make primary partitions, I've never had an issue this way. First, delete existing partitions to make a clean disk. This assumes there is nothing to save on disk, if there is fdisk just killed it. Next, choose to make new partition, primary, 64 mb, bootable, ext2.
Repeat, but without bootable flag.
It sounds like that was what you were after, and you got it from here. Or maybe you got it on your own faster than I can type!

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